Be careful when pre-ordering Acorns or Nests. These are pre-release so yet to be battle tested.
BCU 1525 by 🐿️ SQRL & ❌ Xilinx
The BCU 1525's are essentially a modified version of the Xilinx VCU 1525 offered by a few smaller private parties. GPUHoarder from SQRL Research is technically the manufacturer and seller of the BCU units. They source VCU 1525's from Xilinx, work with a manufacturer to make the heat management mods, and then do some post-processing and programming to make them mining ready.
One of the benefits of buying the BCU is that their devices have an encryption key burned into the device, which gives the owner the ability to use proprietary mining software offered by SQRL and mining software developers from Allmine.co.
Acorn is the first-ever cryptocurrency mining accelerator card. By using best-in-class Xilinx FPGA chips in an M.2 slot, the Acorn CLE-101 offloads and performs the least GPU friendly parts of memory-intensive cryptocurrency mining.
Acorn CLE-101 makes mining algorithms like Ethash and CryptoNight V1 on GPUs more efficient. It does this by offloading the mathematical calculations (such as Keccak) that are usually processed on a GPU ASIC - these are calculated much more efficiently on an FPGA chip.
Algorithms
Hashrate*
Power Consumption
Ethash
🔺 10-15%
🔻 60-70%
Cryptonight V1
🔺 33%
🔻 90%
*Hash rate and power consumption figures are estimated and not yet confirmed. Acorn is a pre-release item and has yet to be battle tested
Efficiently mine core-intensive coins. Acorn CLE-215 works with high-end GPUs to efficiently minimize bottlenecks, and it can dual mine coins to maximize your profitability. Acorn CLE-215 makes mining algorithms like X16r and Lyra2REv2 on GPUs more efficient.
Algorithms
Hashrate*
Power Consumption
Lyra2rev2
🔺 30%-150%
🔺 10%-25%
x16r
🔺 70%-160%
🔺 10%-25%
Ethash
🔺 10-15%
🔻 60-70%
Cryptonight V1
🔺 33%
🔻 90%
*Hash rate and power consumption figures are estimated and not yet confirmed. Acorn is a pre-release item and has yet to be battle tested
Acorn CLE-215+ does everything the CLE-215 does while providing a 30 percent FPGA speed boost. This significantly increases hash rates for algorithms like X16r and Lyra2REv2 and enables standalone mining.
Algorithms
Hashrate*
Power Consumption
Lyra2rev2
🔺 30%-150%
🔺 10%-25%
x16r
🔺 70%-160%
🔺 10%-25%
Ethash
🔺 10-15%
🔻 60-70%
Cryptonight V1
🔺 33%
🔻 90%
*Hash rate and power consumption figures are estimated and not yet confirmed. Acorn is a pre-release item and has yet to be battle tested
AcornNest X2G allows you to host two Acorn units in any PCIe 2.0 or greater x8 or x16 slot and provides four USB PCIe riser connections for accelerated GPUs without any special motherboard requirements. Requires PCIe 2.0/3.0 x16 slot OR PCIe 3.0 x8 slot.
AcornNest X4 allows you to host four Acorn units in a PCIe 2.0/3.0 x16 or PCIe 3.0 x8 slot without any special motherboard requirements. Lets you connect 4 GPUs via USB risers. Requires PCIe 2.0 or greater x8 or x16 slot.
